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Getty / Futurism In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new Wall Street Journal reporting: they can embrace AI and lay off scores of employees — or keep their employees, but use AI to make them work even harder. If those options sound like a false dichotomy to you, you’re probably not wrong. But it’s emblematic of the logic that business leaders, gripped by AI fomo, are operating with. No one wants to b

Nathan Howard / Getty Images On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating so much that it had to be shut down. According to The Next Web, AWS engineers were forced to throttle their services and then reroute customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers like the crypto platform Coinbase, which experienced an “extended outage of core trading services.” Things hadn’t improved by Friday

Getty Images / Yaroslav Kushta A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other machines, without any help from human co-conspirators. “We’re rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI, because it would be able to self-exfiltrate its weights and copy itself to thousands of computers around the world,” Jeffrey Ladish, the director Berkeley-based AI safety g

Getty / Futurism Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at work. As corporations boast about how much they’re investing in automation, the reality is that many employers are practically forcing the tech on their workers. Nowhere has that been more visible than software engineers, with companies including Meta even introducing “leaderboards” to show which employees are burning the most AI tokens in real-ti

On net, it’s probably a good thing that more attention is being paid to instituting protections and guardrails for AI development. But man, we really have to do a better job talking about real and conceivable harms before wasting time on the theoretical ones. Case in point: OpenAI researcher Noam Brown’s recent appearance on the Dwarkesh Podcast with Dwarkesh Patel. Brown spends a lot of time talking about how AI agents can communicate with one another and

Researchers in the lab of Asst. Prof. Shuolong Yang at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have built a "self-driving" lab system that can adjust temperature, composition and timing of the process of making thin metal films for technologies, using robotics and artificial intelligence to decide the next best step without waiting for a human. Credit: John Zich When scientists make the thin metal films used in electronics, optic

A philanthropy created by Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, makes curing disease its main mission with a focus on using artificial intelligence. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal. The move narrows the focus of the philanthropic organizati

Mission impossible: Although observing the shape and movement of a barchan dune (crescent-shaped) allows us to infer wind direction and average intensity, calculating the resulting force on each grain of sand was considered impossible. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial int

Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c09057 Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM), Wang's team built ATOMIC (Autonomous Technology for Optical Microscopy & Intelligent Characterization)—an AI microscope platform that can analyze materia

Diagram displaying how Google Gemini was used to analyze images and identify changes, including explosive events. Credit: Stoppa, Bulmus et al., Nature Astronomy (2025) How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the potential for using AI to conduct astrophysical surveys of c

Estimates of the informational treatments on outcomes relevant to Hypothesis 1: beliefs about automation related job loss. Bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Results statistically significant at the 5%-level when we used the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure are marked with a ∗. Credit: The Journal of Politics (2025). DOI: 10.1086/739200 As debates about artificial intelligence and employment intensify, new research suggests that even warnings about near-t

An aerial view of meandering streams through the desert landscape of southeastern Jordan. Credit: United States Geological Survey/Unsplash Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Global flood losses now average $388 billion a year. Simultaneously, droughts are becoming more widespread an

Counting the number of users who visit a website accurately requires recording visitor IDs and eliminating duplicates. However, using the algorithm "HyperLogLog" published in 2007, it is possible to estimate the number of users on the scale of hundreds of millions with just a few KB of memory. Scientific American, a science magazine, explains the mechanism of HyperLogLog. The coin-flipping trick that counts the Internet | Scientific American https://www.sc

The three issues mentioned in must be resolved; otherwise, data will ultimately become the biggest bottleneck in the implementation of these technologies. This is the conclusion drawn by a former Microsoft researcher from Asia. As for the other , they are not directly related to the main topic but provide additional context. Author: Deng Zheming, Editor: Qi Chengyong, Earlier this autumn, technologies such as Skild S1, Generalist GEN-1.5, and RoboTTT made

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to laying off workers wholesale. However, a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper conducted by a group of Microsoft researchers and spotted by IT Pro found that today’s top AI systems remain eyeb

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat that could impact all life on Earth. Our best experts can’t agree on its trajectory or even its distance from our planet, but knowledge of its presence is enough to throw society into a fervor. There’s no way to know: it could hit with such force that it lays waste to all but a chosen few,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The 19th century German economist Karl Marx identified a basic tension in human labor: squeeze workers too hard, and they’ll eventually start fighting back. It’s a contradiction capitalists have spent untold billions of dollars and decades trying to resolve, often through automation technology like AI — remove human workers from the payroll, the thinking goes, and you’ll never have to wor

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something. A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called “independent, locally owned digital news publication” dubbed the South Florida Standard was in reality an AI-generated Potemkin village staffed entirely by fake writers. The wri

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Being a straight-A student doesn’t mean what it used to. Today, widely available AI chatbots make cheating on your homework and churning out entire essays easier than ever. If students don’t outright ask an AI for answers, then they’re asking one for tips and inspiration, or to double-check their work. The result, besides a damaged generation of kids being robbed of their own education? G

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others do use the tech for tasks like sourcing journal articles for references, editing copy, or formatting citations — but they face pressure to verify every claim, since AI has a baked-in risk of contaminating their work with hallucinations. A vocal minority of academics, however,